The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell

It was Plato who said something like: The unexamined life is not worth living.  A 20th century Beatnik riposted with:  The unlived life is not worth examining.  In either case, the reader becomes part of this book, with his own story to tell and rethink.  I have a weird sense of humor, so every five pages or so I encounter a LOL, boffo-belly-grabber reflection of myself.  This book is another in the long series of Southern literature from Joel Chandler Harris through William Faulkner through Walker Percy.  As a result, I have also purchased "You and Me".